Authorities did not send Amy Bishop and her husband a letter clearing them of involvement in a bomb plot, according to this story in The Boston Globe. It looks more and more like Bishop was given a pass in 1986 for shooting her brother, either because the local police were incompetent, or the DA at the time was incompetent (that would be Congressman Bill Delahunt), or someone deliberately swept things under a rug. Then, in the bomb plot case, investigators just could not get enough evidence to charge Bishop and her hubby, but never had evidence against anyone else. Hopefully, the good people of Alabama will strap this woman down and give her the juice, or the needle. Sometimes, you just have to shoot the mad dogs, don't you?

Michael Graham lays the blame squarely at Delahunt's feet. Graham is not alone in his opinion.

The snow plow boys from Boston, using their big equipment and extensive experience, help the people of Washington, DC dig out, earning praise and good will, as well as a few bucks.

The climate change 'consensus' is cracking up.

Benny Avni thinks the Israelis did an excellent job when they whacked a Hamas big shot. The fact that British passports might have been used to facilitate the job is causing quite a stir in London, with British officials demanding an explanation.

Are two Chinese schools the focal point of a recent series of online attacks?

Paul Krugman says the health insurance 'death spiral' in California is more evidence to support passing the stalled health reform bill. Certainly, it is true that rising health insurance premiums is causing many healthy people to drop their insurance, thus increasing costs for the insurance companies as their risk pools become populated by a larger percentage of folks who need benefits, thus causing the companies to raise premiums even more. But Krugman and the Democrats want to create an even more bureaucratic, less flexible, and more statist system. I think the American people have already signalled, through the elections in Virginia, New Jersey and Massachusetts, that they do not want to go in that direction.

Meanwhile, the poor economy and the rising cost of health care have combined to leave state governors with terrible choices concerning Medicaid coverage. Cut coverage, limit eligibility, reduce payments to providers, or raise taxes.

Charles Krauthammer says the liberals, just as they did under Jimmy Carter, are complaining that America is 'ungovernable'. Krauthammer believes that is nonsense. America, he says, was governable when it had a smart, politically savvy President, which was the case with Reagan in the '80s and Clinton in the '90s. Those Presidents also had the advantage of a Congress dominated by the other party. That, of course, seems counter intuitive. After all, shouldn't divided government be less responsive and less capable of passing legislation? Experience tells us that is not the case. Republican Reagan and Democrat Tip O'Neill were smart old-time politicians who knew how to herd their people into line, so they could make deals with each other secure in the knowledge that the other guy would deliver. Bill Clinton and Newt Gingrich were smart, new age politicians who could make deals with each other secure in the knowledge that the other guy could deliver. That is the key. If the leader of one party thinks his opposite number is in a position of strength, but he is also secure about his own strength, then they can do business. If one guy is weak, or both are weak, then nothing gets done. Carter was weak, so he couldn't even get his own party to go along. Bush the Elder started strong but became weak, and failed. Bush the Younger was never strong enough on the domestic political front, despite his post-9/11 boost, because that strength dissipated over time and with the war in Iraq. Obama should have started strong, but his inexperience has led to numerous mistakes, and the poor economy and the overreach on health care have seriously debilitated him politically. Obama's only hope, paradoxically, is for a smashing GOP win in November. Faced with a strong Republican House Speaker (and maybe even a Republican Senate Majority Leader), Obama will have to moderate his positions, but he can also make deals with the GOP if he can show some strength moving forward, as Clinton did after 1994.

Pat Buchanan thinks the consequence of a GOP win in November is more paralysis.